FTP Passwords in Directory Hotlists

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Mon Aug 18 05:06:57 UTC 2003


On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

> It would be nice if mc would hide ftp passwords in directory hotlists.

I think the right for FTP passwords is ~/.netrc, not ~/.mc/hotlist.  If
you allow the password to be saved outside .netrc, it should not be
considered so secret that it needs to be hidden.

Since you didn't mention your version of mc, I cannot tell you if it
implements .netrc support correctly.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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